A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

The merger of two black holes is a momentous event, revealing the wildest and most extreme configurations of space, time and ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision ...

First, gravitational waves proved Einstein correct. Now, they’ve confirmed Stephen Hawking was right about black holes.

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

Black holes get bigger as they merge, the LIGO Collaboration confirmed with a new observation that could finally prove a ...

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an ...

“Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe.

A team of scientists claims a computational tool for studying black hole collisions could be our best bet for answering ...

Cells exposed to a month of extraterrestrial conditions accumulated molecular changes associated with aging and mutations ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." A team of scientists has developed a recipe for ...